Influence on number of top-ups after implementing patient controlled epidural analgesia: A cohort study

Ganapathy van Samkar; Henning Hermanns; Philipp Lirk; Markus W. Hollmann; Markus F. Stevens

doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186225

Influence on number of top-ups after implementing patient controlled epidural analgesia: A cohort study

Ganapathy van Samkar, Henning Hermanns, Philipp Lirk, Markus W. Hollmann, Markus F. Stevens

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Abstract

Postoperative epidural analgesia often needs rate readjustment using top-ups. Patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is said to reduce the requirement of epidural top-ups when compared to continuous epidural analgesia (CEA). We compared CEA and PCEA in major thoracic and abdominal surgery, in a cohort study. The primary endpoint was the required number of epidural top-ups. Secondary endpoints were pain scores, side effects and workload differences. We analysed 199 patients with CEA and 187 with PCEA. Both groups had similar pain scores. The total number of top-ups was 75 in 57 patients (CEA) versus 20 top-ups in 18 patients (PCEA). (p = 0.0001) Sedation tended to occur more frequently in patients with CEA versus PCEA, 5.5% vs 1.6% (p = 0.05). Implementation of PCEA led to a decreased number of top-ups, fewer side-effects and decreased use of the postoperative care unit

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	e0186225
Journal	PLOS ONE
Volume	12
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0186225
Publication status	Published - 2017

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